Five people are now confirmed to have died in yesterday’s terror attack in Westminster and police have arrested seven people in connection with the incident. Here’s how the newspaper editorials and front pages have covered the atrocity:
The Sun says the terrorists are wrong if they think that yesterday’s attack means ‘we will be cowed’. The nation will mourn those killed but ‘normal life goes on’. But the Sun says that we must now rethink how to tackle the terror threat. Yesterday’s attacker ‘could barely have picked a more fortified place’, the paper points out. But ‘imagine how much greater the carnage might have been elsewhere’. ‘Britain must consider a huge increase in armed cops right across the country,’ the Sun argues, saying that what did not seem right before must now be considered because ‘the world has changed and with it the threat from random suicide assaults’. The Sun says that armed cops can not merely be on the streets of London – ‘We must do everything we can to guard those towns and cities’ around the country as well, the paper concludes.
‘We must deny the attackers the disproportionate reaction they seek,’ says the Daily Telegraph.

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